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Originally Posted by tony286
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
― Elizabeth Warren
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Nicely poetic, but a lot of fallacies there. Almost all of the services described can be done better and more efficiently by the private sector, and originally were. The ONLY ones which are the true pervue of the government is law enforcement and national defense. Roads, Schools, fire department, etc... can, and has been, done better by private industry, not government.
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